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  How Akira Kurosawa Used Movement to Tell His Stories: A Video Essay

  

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  The history books say that there were three Japanese filmmakers to emerge in the 1950s – Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa. Never mind that Mizoguchi and Ozu made many of their best movies in the 1930s. Never mind that masterful, innovative directors like Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita have been unfairly overshadowed by the […]

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  Akira Kurosawa Appears in a Rare Television & Tells Dick Cavett about His Love of Old Tokyo & His Samurai Lineage (1981)

  

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  There was a time in America when you could sit down in the evening, turn on a television talk show, and hear a conversation with Akira Kurosawa. That time was the early 1980s, and that talk show came hosted, of course, by Dick Cavett, to whom no cultural current — and indeed no culture — […] Akira Kurosawa Appears in a Rare Television &...

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  The Animations That Changed Cinema: The Groundbreaking Legacies of Prince Achmed, Akira, The Iron Giant & More

  

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  Animation is childish. So believe those who never watch animated films — but also, on another,...

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  The Cinematography That Changed Cinema: Exploring Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Greenaway & Other Auteurs

  

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XiqTYvq-W0 One type of argument made against “auteur theory,” which posits a film’s director as its...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XiqTYvq-W0 One type of argument made against “auteur theory,” which posits a film’s director as its “author,” holds that certain non-directorial collaborators contribute just as many — or, as Pauline Kael argued about Citizen Kane, more — of a work of cinema’s defining qualities. Surely a video essayist like Lewis Bond, co-creator with Luiza Liz Bond of […] The Cinematography That Changed Cinema: Exploring Akira Kurosawa,...

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